The Flame of Eternity

"The Flame of Eternity" provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time, which in turn cannot be conceived of without eternity. Eternity is a measure of time, but also, Michalski argues, something Nietzsche viewed, first and foremost, as a physiological concept having to do with the body. The body ages and decays, involving us in a confrontation with our eventual death. It is in relation to this brute fact that we come to understand eternity and the finitude of time. Nietzsche argues that humanity has long regarded the impermanence of our life as an illness in need of curing. It is this "pathology" that Nietzsche called nihilism. Arguing that this insight lies at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole, Michalski seeks to explain and reinterpret Nietzsche's thought in light of it. Michalski maintains that many of Nietzsche's main ideas - including his views on love, morality (beyond good and evil), the will to power, overcoming, the suprahuman (or the "overman", as it is infamously referred to), the Death of God, and the myth of the eternal return - take on new meaning and significance when viewed through the prism of eternity.

ISBN 0691143463   DEWEY edition DC23 ISBN13 9780691143460 (What's this?)   Pages 240 Publisher Princeton University Press   Weight (grammes) 542 Imprint Princeton University Press   Published in New Jersey Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 05 Dec 2011   Width (mm) 152 Translator Benjamin Paloff   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 193   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

Preface vii Chapter 1: Nihilism 1 Chapter 2: Time Flows, the Child Plays 16 Chapter 3: Good and Evil, Joy and Pain 32 Chapter 4: Reason, Which Hurts 46 Chapter 5: The Time Is at Hand 62 Chapter 6: The Death of God 75 Chapter 7: The Flame of Eternity 90 Chapter 8: Eternal Love 124 Chapter 9: Our Insatiable Desire for More Future: On the Eternal Return of the Same 150 Notes 209 Index 225

[V]aluable... The author rightly grasps Nietzsche's uniqueness and originality, anticipating the crisis of European thought about to unfold with the onset of the 20th century. Choice

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